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In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation of mensural musical notation, set within a beautifully designed image of the Virgin and Child enthroned. This talk explores the motivations behind this collaboration, the practicalities that it involved and, crucially, how this type of print might help us to understand the relationship between music and art in early modern Antwerp.